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Teju Cole: What's missing when we look at the world?
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole’s latest book is called “Blind Spot.” It features hundreds of images -- spanning from Lagos to Berlin to Brooklyn -- with essays on what’s visible and invisible in the photos.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readNigerian-American writer Teju Cole’s latest book is called “Blind Spot.” It features hundreds of images -- spanning from Lagos to Berlin to Brooklyn -- with essays on what’s visible and invisible in the photos. Many of the photos don’t include people -- just traces of them.
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Conversations with Jesmyn Ward, Teju Cole, and other authors we love- 0:00Kris Yenbamroong: Cooking Night+Market dishes in your own home
- 0:00Jesmyn Ward: How racism haunts the present
- 0:00Zoë Quinn: Fighting hate after Gamergate
- 0:00Teju Cole: What's missing when we look at the world?You’re reading this
The full episode
4 of 4Conversations with Jesmyn Ward, Teju Cole, and other authors we love- 0:00Kris Yenbamroong: Cooking Night+Market dishes in your own home
- 0:00Jesmyn Ward: How racism haunts the present
- 0:00Zoë Quinn: Fighting hate after Gamergate
- 0:00Teju Cole: What's missing when we look at the world?You’re reading this